No propogation on the 85cm down layer but it sure does fracture clean in the single column. Camera battery died part way through the test so didn’t get any photos of this layer.

Wide spread breakable wind crust skied good, with the right skis, in more open slopes where longer radius turns can be made.

Saw 2 separate avalanche crowns across the gully in steeper terrain with rock outcroppings. 1 was natural and 1 appeared to be skier triggered. They where both in isolated areas and relatively small. Difficult to tell the crown depth and time from a distance away but looked to be from yesterday or the day before and maybe 10-20cm deep.

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